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HB 3365 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3365 would include a major disaster declared by the president
of the United States or a disaster declared under Section 418.014,
Gov. Code to the list of scenarios where individuals can be immune from civil liability for acts or omissions that
occur in giving care, assistance, or advice with respect to the
management of an incident. The bill also adds charitable organizations, as that term is
defined by Section 84.003, that provides...Read More
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SB 616 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 616 is the sunset bill for the Department of Public Safety and would transfer various administrative operations and non-law enforcement functions. The bill provides for the conditional transfer of the driver license program from DPS to Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. The bill also includes provisions extending the sunset of DPS for 12 years, extending the term of a non-commercial driver license from six to eight years, creating...Read More
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HB 2075 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2075 would amend Section 52.031, Election Code, to allow for candidates to use any surname acquired by law or marriage on the ballot. Read More
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HB 5 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 5 would require the Texas Division of Emergency Management to create a catastrophic debris management program with consultation with other state agencies. The division would also be required to develop a model guide, with FEMA, to contract services to remove debris. This bill also creates a wet debris study group to study issues related to removing wet debris following a disaster. Read More
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HB 111 |
86(R) - 2019 |
Current law provides for training of certain school employees to recognize and prevent prevent sexual abuse, sex trafficking and maltreatment of children. This bill would require that such training also specifically include recognition and prevention of sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and maltreatment of children with significant
cognitive disabilities.Read More
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HB 3195 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3195 would give the Texas Department of Juvenile Justice more flexibility in determining when to release a juvenile defendant participating in a highly structured residential program. The bill would allow certain records and information concerning a child to be released to an entity assisting the department in providing transition planning and reentry services to the child. The bill would also change from 30 days to 10 days the amount...Read More
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SB 494 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 494 would make several changes to open meetings law and public information law for governmental bodies impacted by a catastrophe. This bill would decrease from two hours to one hour the time before the convening of a meeting to deliberate or take action on an emergency or urgent public necessity that notice for the meeting must be posted. Special notice of an emergency meeting or the addition of an emergency item given to the news media...Read More
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SB 7 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 7 would create the Texas Infrastructure Resiliency Fund (TIRF) which will house four accounts: (1) the floodplain management account (which will continue to be used for grants, data collection, stream gaging, and outreach); (2) the Hurricane Harvey account (which will be used to meet local match requirements to leverage federally appropriated money for recovery use); (3) the flood plan implementation account (which will be used to finance...Read More
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HB 2164 |
86(R) - 2019 |
Article 2.1305 of the Code of Criminal Procedure prohibits an establishment serving the public from prohibiting or restricting a peace officer or special investigator from carrying a weapon on the premises. HB 2164 would subject an establishment that commits the offense to a civil penalty of $1,000 per offense. The attorney general would be authorized to sue to collect the penalty, and such funds would be deposited in the...Read More
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HB 929 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 929 would require magistrates to inform a defendant that a plea of guilty or nolo contendere may affect the person’s eligibility for enlistment and reenlistment or result in
the person’s discharge from the United States armed forces if they are a member. Read More
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HB 16 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 16 would establish a physician-patient
relationship between a child born alive after an
abortion and the physician who performed or attempted the abortion. The physician must exercise
the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to
preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent
and conscientious physician would for any other child born at the same gestational age, this includes immediately transferring...Read More
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SB 282 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 282 would establish a system by which the Texas Department of Transportation would track liquidated damages associated with delayed transportation projects. The Department would then be required to make an annual payment from contractor penalties to department districts to cover the cost of their liquidated damages in that year.Read More
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SB 16 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 16 would establish a loan repayment assistance program for the repayment of student loan debt over a five-year period for peace officers who meet eligibility requirements. The total amount of repayment assistance to an eligible peace officer would be capped at $20,000.Read More
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HB 4298 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 4298 would exempt from statutory provisions regulating chemical dependence treatment facilities a satellite office in which the person providing chemical dependency treatment services is operating under the supervision of a licensed facility, and the services delivered at the satellite site fall within the scope of that facility's license.Read More
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SB 619 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 619 is a sunset review bill for a multitude of state commissions and governmental entities, including the Department of Criminal Justice, the Juvenile Justice Department and the Public Utility Commission in addition to many others. The bill mostly only deals with extending the sunset review dates of the entities, although some entities do see minor administrative changes as recommended by the Sunset Advisory Commission. The bill also...Read More
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HJR 72 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HJR 72 proposes a constitutional amendment to allow a person to hold more than one office as an elected or
appointed municipal judge in more than one municipality at the same
time. The purpose of this legislation is to allow smaller cities without enough qualified people to fill municipal judge positions to have elected municipal judges serve more than one city. (Appointed municipal judges may already do so.)Read More
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HB 1717 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 1717 is enabling legislation for HJR 72 which proposes a constitutional amendment to allow a person to hold more than one office as an elected or appointed municipal judge in more than one municipality at the same time. The purpose of this legislation is to allow smaller cities without enough qualified people to fill municipal judge positions to have elected municipal judges serve more than one city. (Appointed municipal judges may already do so.)Read More
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SB 1450 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1450 would create a consumer delivery permit to allow for the delivery of alcohol via a contracted employee or driver from the premises of the holder of a retailer’s permit to an ultimate consumer in an area where the sale of the beverage is legal. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) would be allowed to instate an annual fee for the delivery permit, and would be required to create a driving training program and...Read More
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HB 1693 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 1693 would amend the civil practices and remedies code to stipulate that an affidavit "that the amount a person charged for a
service was reasonable at the time and place that the service was
provided and that the service was necessary" does not constitute evidence of or support a finding of the causation element of the cause of action that is the basis for the civil action. The bill would require a party serving the affidavit to...Read More
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HB 369 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 369 would establish procedures to allow for a suit relating to the adoption of a child to be transferred to the county where the child resides.Read More
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